This sponsored post from Intel explores ways to find and eliminate memory bottlenecks that could be limiting your applications’ performance. Often, it’s not enough to parallelize and vectorize an ...

Rowhammer exploits that allow unprivileged attackers to change or corrupt data stored in vulnerable memory chips are now possible on virtually all DDR4 modules due to a new approach that neuters ...

Artificial intelligence has been bottlenecked less by raw compute than by how quickly models can move data in and out of memory. A new generation of memory-centric designs is starting to change that, ...

Is it possible to reduce the power consumed by memory by 50%? Yes, but it requires work in the memory and at the architecture level. Memory consumes about 50% or more of the area and about 50% of the ...

Even though a computer’s memory map looks pretty smooth and very much byte-addressable at first glance, the same memory on a hardware level is a lot more bumpy. An essential term a developer may come ...

Direct memory access (DMA) is a means of having a peripheral device control a processor’s memory bus directly. DMA permits the peripheral, such as a UART, to transfer data directly to or from memory ...

Last time, in Part 1, we introduced somebasics behind Direct Memory Access (DMA) -why it's needed, and how it's structured and controlled. This time,we'll focus on the classifications of DMA transfers ...

The performance difference Smart Access Memory provides to the flagship Radeon RX 6900 XT across a range of games, based on our testing. The company didn’t specify when the BIOS revisions necessary to ...

When AMD announced it had added Smart Access Memory support to its older RDNA GPUs, we weren't sure how much benefit gamers could expect to get out of the feature. RDNA and RDNA2 are quite similar, ...